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Cloud Computing Could Be a $1BN Business for Dell "In a Couple of Years"

According to Founder & CEO Michael Dell
By Cloud News Desk
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July 31, 2008 11:15 PM EDT
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Already generating "hundreds of millions" of dollars in sales for Dell, cloud computing could be a $1 billion business "in a couple [of] years" according to a BusinessWeek interview with Michael Dell, founder and CEO of the company.

Speaking with BW's Aaron Ricadela, Dell explained that Dell plans  to customize large orders of thousands of servers for customers like Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo.

Dell's stock has risen 23% over the past three months. On a rising cloud, all ships rise...

 

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